Playful Pixels

Find out how to add personality to your home through eye-catching color and patterns that pop.

- Robert Heckert

COLORS ARE MORE THAN COMBINATIONS OF PIXELS. They are active entities that give life to a room. In Meg Braff’s book The Decorated Home: Living with Style and Joy, she provides us with an indispensable guide to understanding how colors work and interact with other design elements.

Layer in Style

To turn a house into a spectrum of style, Meg is all about color and pattern. Tones, shades and lines—they all build on each other to help dress a room. The key, above all, is to create visual variety by layering items, whether placing pattern on pattern or by mixing pieces in a room.